Problem "slipstreaming" XP Home SP2. DOS is beyond me.

adaadat

I’m trying to “slipstream” XP Service Pack 2 (I know SP 3 is already here) with XP Home to create an XP Home SP 2 bootable CD-ROM and am following the instructions here http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sp2_slipstream.asp#nero, but am having trouble with the pesky DOS commands – if that’s what they are. I can’t hang around waiting to install XP 3 and create an XP 3 CD-ROM as I need the XP Home SP 2 CD-ROM to check whether I have any corrupt OS files, by running System File Checker (sfc /scannow).

My Service Pack 2 is called “WindowsXP-SP2.exe”

I’ve completed up to Step 3, but can’t complete the final slipstreaming.

After completing Step 2, I should have a folder called “i386”, within C:\sp2, i.e. C:\sp2\i386, which means I can then complete the following Command Line instructions:

cd i386 [ENTER]
cd update [ENTER]
update –s:c\xp [ENTER]
I don’t yet understand all of this.

However, when I completed Step 2, the “i386” folder was here:
C:\sp2\c\i386

A “c” folder had been created.

At the moment, the DOS window command is at C:\sp2>

What do I need to change the above commands (Step 3 commands) to, so as to complete the slipstreaming?
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I’ve just discovered a prog. called Autostreamer 1.0.33 which will do all of this for me. Should I abandon this DOS/ISO Buster method?

Thanks.

Marty_J

There's a program call AutoStreamer that will do it all for you:

http://www.simplyguides.net/guides/using_autostreamer/using_autostreamer.shtml

DatabaseError

cd\

(\=root folder, cd=change directory)

BillScarab

You need to be in directory c:\sp2\c\i386 so you can type

cd c:\sp2\c\i386

alternatively as you are already in c:\sp2 you could type

cd c\i386

However given that your directory structure is different to the guide you are following you've obviously made an error somewhere along the way so it may be better to reatrt the whole process.

Lakeuk

Build a new disc using nlite, takes out all the hassle

http://teamtutorials.com/windows-tutorials/how-to-make-a-custom-windows-install-w-nlite

adaadat

I decided to scrap my original attampt and use Autostreamer, which worked like a dream.

I have two questions, though:

1. Does my new XP Home SP2 "Image/.ISO" CD-ROM contain all of my updates since 2004 (when the SP2 update was released), so I wouldn't have to re-download them all, should I have to use the CD-ROM? I read somewhere, all the important info, regarding the Windows Updates and Hotfixes, is written to a "dllCache" file, or something or other and included as part of the slip-stream process.

2. Does it matter that the Autostreamer prog. created an Image file, which I burned to a CD (in my case, using Nero Burning ROM > Burn Image), as the original instructions talk, explicitly, about creating a "bootable" CD, also using Nero Burning ROM, but the "CD-ROM (Boot)" feature. Are they one and the same?

I don't have a virtual drive, so I can't test whether the CD-ROM is bootable.